msdmt

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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From m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ sdm (makeup; to put on makeup) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /misˈtʼuːmit//misˈtʼuːmiʔ//məsˈtʼuːma//məsˈtʼeːmə/

Noun

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mssdmt
N33C
Z2ss

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  1. a black mineral pigment used as eye makeup and in medicinal preparations for treating eye disease; mesdemet
  2. the mineral material from which this pigment is made, as used for making small cultic images and other objects [New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Descendants

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References

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  • msdm.t (lemma ID 76190)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 153.8–153.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 118